Patna: BJP leader and Bihar’s Road Construction Minister Nitin Naveen has described the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) withdrawal from the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) as a “predictable collapse” of an alliance formed without ideological coherence or leadership consensus.
Speaking in Patna a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Motihari, Naveen criticised the opposition bloc, claiming it was driven by “lust for power” rather than principles or public interest.
“The alliance was bound to break. From the beginning, it was stitched together not on ideological grounds but to oppose development,” Naveen said. “AAP’s exit is just the latest chapter in the opposition’s self-destructive politics.”
He accused AAP and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of engaging in politics driven by self-preservation, arguing that such motivations sidelined national interest. “When your politics is reduced to image management, you lose sight of the nation,” he said.
The BJP legislator also asserted that the INDIA bloc lacked both a common minimum programme and a unified leadership. “There was no trust among its constituents. This was an alliance of ambition, not conviction,” he added.
Naveen contrasted the opposition’s internal discord with what he called the “unity and clarity” of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) under Prime Minister Modi. “People trust Modi’s leadership, which stands for transparency, good governance, and development,” he said. “The time for politics built on confusion is over.”
